Business leaders know, and research validates, that workplace conditions influence employee performance and engagement, and ultimately company productivity.

A safe, comfortable, and healthy working environment, in addition to social dialogue and technology, will advance productivity. This sounds pretty common sense, but the above conditions rely on six actions:Read more

I never miss an opportunity to quote Ferris Bueller: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Beuller

This quote could not be truer today when it comes to technology.

The most salient example comes from my own life: My dad was an architect who ran a successful architectural firm for over 50 years. He designed and built some of the most elegant structures I’ve ever seen. He had a gift for space, form, and function. My youth was filled with visits to wood, concrete and steel forms where site after site I watched him direct the various teams building each amazing structure.

These pleasant memories and experiences also helped me shape the idea for the company I lead today- @CrowdComfort. My dad was in complete creative control of the structures that he had drafted by hand into large paper masterpieces. True creative marvels emerged from those blank pages. He maintained his approach to the craft until the day he died. However CAD and similar software eventually became the standard. Things changed.Read more

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Crowdsourcing is not a fad. It’s a proven method of data collection and analytics that taps into the wisdom of the crowd. Even so, many operations managers and other professionals do not consider crowdsourcing as leading the list of reliable solutions to challenges. This may be because many operators of large buildings, enterprise campuses, or real estate holdings lack the so-called “crowdsourcing gene.”

Another possible reason for their reticence is the sense that, in sharing and eliciting feedback openly from everyone, the workplace becomes an asylum that is being run by the inmates.

Research has proven time and again that the crowd is smarter and more powerful than any one individual and that it consistently delivers create, highly effective solutions to all manner of problems. Read more